Corn-husker



(No ModeL) W. H. TYLER.

CORN HUSKER. N0. 368,902. v Patented Aug. 23, 1887.

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WILLIAM H. TYLER, OF DAVID CITY, NEBRASKA.

'CORN-HUSKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,902, dated August23, 1887.

Application filed March 14, 1887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. TYLER, of David City, in the county ofButler and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and ImprovedOorn-Husker, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to a hand device for husking corn, and has for itsobject to provide a simple, inexpensive, and durable husker of thisclass, which may be worked effectively without overstraining or injuringthe hands.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction andcombinations of parts of the corn-husker, all as hereinafter describedand claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart ofthis specification,in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the husker as held to the barehand in position for use. Fig. 2 is a rear edge view of the husker, withthe strap adjusted as in Fig. 1, and with the upper loop of the huskerpartly broken away. Fig. 3 is a back view of. the husker, with the strapadjusted as when holding the husker to a mittened hand; and Fig. 4 is atop view of the. husker with the strap detached.

'In its preferred form the husker is made of a single piece of elasticwire, preferably springsteel wire, and is tinned, galvanized, orotherwise plated to prevent rusting.

On end portion, A, of the device is the husking-pin proper, which isflattened at its end part and pointed at the extremity and bent backwardor concaved at its flattened portion ato fit the end of the thumb of thehuskers hand. At the lower end of the pin the wire is bent double toform a loop or eye, I), the outer portion of which projects laterally toform a stop or catch to a leather strap used to fasten the device to thehand, as presently explained. I

From the eye I) the wire ranges upward at B, along the pin A, but at alittle distance from it, and the part of the wire at the top of the barB is bent around on itself to form a large loop, 0, which is bent atboth sides at about its center, so that the upper part, c, of the loopprojects backward, as clearly shown in the drawings. The extremity c ofthe wire at the base of the loop 0 abuts the bar B, and

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the pin A is bent a little to lie closely to the outer side portion, 0of the lower verticallyranging portion of the loop, and whereby the pinis braced effectively against the loop and the bar B of the device. Thelower cross-bar,

0, and at its other end portion the strap has two slits, d d througheither of which the loop or eye I) of the device may be passed. When thehusker is to be held to the bare hand, the strap-loop (1 will be slippeddown onto the lower cross-bar, c, of the loop 0, and the strap will bepassed backward between the first and second fingers of the hand, andthence down outside or back of the three outer fingers, and its free endwill be caught onto or over the loop or eye I), which will be slippedthrough the slit (2 of the strap, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawings. .When the husker is to be held to a hand covered by a mitten,the loop d of the strap will be slipped around and upward along the sidepart, c, of the loop 0, and over to and upon the upper cross-bar, c ofthe loop, which gives room for the passage of the strap outside or backof all four fingers of the hand, and the free end of,

the strap will be engaged by its slit 0? with the eye I) of the device.This allows the husker to be held to a mittened hand without cutting ahole in the mitten. for the passage of the strap.

It will be noticed that however the husker be held to the hand by thestrap, the pin A will always be free to spring independently of theother parts of the device or of its fastenings to the hand; hence,should the hard cornear be caught by the end of the pin in husking thecorn, the pin will yield or spring backward and thus prevent suddenshock or strain upon the huskers fingers, thumb, or wrist, which is animportant consideration. When the pin-point catches the corn-husk only,the pin A will not spring backward, as it catches the husk endwise ofthe pin and cuts and strips off the husks very easily and quickly. It isobvious, also, that however the husker is held to the hand, itsbackwardly-bent part 0 will always overlie the hand or first finger, and

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prevent injury to it should the pin slip from the corn-ear in rapidwork. Furthermore, the part or bar B of the device has a firm bearingagainst the ridge of the palm of the hand at the base of the fingers, toprevent the device being forced backward out of place on the hand, andthis result is also aided by the resistance offered by the bent part cat the head of the device against the first finger of the hand or thelarger knuckle of the finger.

It will be understood that some of the features of my invention may beembodied in a husking device made otherwise than of one piece of wire;hence the invention is not limited in its scope to the constructionhereinbefore particularly described. The wire device, however, is notonly very cheap and effective, but it offers no corners or angles to thehand when in use, and consequently does not tend to cramp the hands andmake them sore.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A corn-husker made with a husking-pin and ahead-loop adjoining thepin, and bent outward at its upper part to overlap the forefinger andforming upper and lower crossbars at the ends of the loop, and anattachingstrap fitted onto said loop, substantially as 30 shown anddescribed, whereby the strap may be slipped to either cross-bar of theloop, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the body portion of a eorn-huskingdevice made with a husking-pin, A, a loop, 0, forming an outbent guard,c, and upper and lower crossbars, a" c, and a bar, B, connecting thebase of the pin A and the loop 0, substantially as shown and described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, the body portion of a corn-huskingdevice made with a husking-pin, A, a loop, 0, forming an outbent guard,c, and upper and lower crossbars, 0 c, and a bar, B, connected to theloop 0, and also connected to the pin A by a laterally-extending loop oreye, b, forming a stopcateh, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a corn-husker, the combination, with a pin, A, having a concavedflat and pointed end portion, a, a loop, 0, forming an outbent 5 guard,c, and cross-bars c c", and a bar, B, connecting the parts A G, of astrap. D, connccted with the loop 0, and adapted for adjustment toeither cross-bar of said loop, substantially as shown and described.

\VILLIAM H. TYLER.

\Vitncsses:

F. S. STAFFORD, A. L. HUGHES.

